1996 Citi Golf 1.3

Hello all,

I have already posted a few pics of the 'Greenie' on the introduction part of the forum, but I've made a few changes to the car since then, so I'm going to post here.
I moved from the UK to Johannesburg, South Africa, in April 2008. I needed to get myself a cheap, economical car, and seeing as though they still build the Mk1 golf, and being a dub nut, it was a no brainer as to which car I would buy! I picked up the Greenie for R23,000 (about 1500 quid) with 158,000kms on the clock (98,000 miles) and she had loads of new parts, so I took her. Car prices over here are really high, so this was a good deal. She also runs forwever on a tank of juice, so that helps with my 60km daily commute to work.

I've had the car for over 4 months now, and it needed a bit of TLC, so I have added parts when funds allow.
The latest additions are clear front indicators from the later spec Citi, and Hella smoked/red rear lamps.
The next things on the list are a new front grille, a good polish with some Auto-glym, and I'm going to attempt to get the engine bay as clean as Berts  
It was quite satisfying walking into the local VW dealer and being able to buy all the parts I needed, and very cheaply!

They had the similar colour here for sale a couple of months ago.

Itoo owned a 1.6 briefly same colour. Lovely cars. :wink:

have the same one aswell :mrgreen:
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Cool nice pics…

Take it its the same engine size 1.3

Was it a bargain then ?????????

yes, it was bargain when i bought it, now not :mrgreen:
was 1.3, 4 gears, now 1.8 GTi (Digifant), lowered, fited antirollbars, power steering, converted to LHD, etc

Nice work Cilitkas!

I want to drop a 2.0i in mine at some stage, and fit Eibach springs, but cash is a bit tight at the moment!